high-blownadj.
/ˈhʌɪbləʊn/, /ˌhʌɪˈbləʊn/, U.S. /ˈhaɪˌbloʊn/ Inflated with conceit or vanity; grandiloquent, exaggerated; = overblown adj.1 1.
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the mind > emotion > pride > swelling or inflation with pride > [adjective]
to-bollenc1175
bolledc1375
bolnedc1380
swollenc1386
blown1483
puffed?a1500
inflate?1504
bellieda1533
bladder-puffed1549
uppuffed1573
huffling1582
swellinga1586
upblown1590
tumorous1603
windy1603
windy-headed1603
huffed1605
flown1606
huff-pufft1608
puff-pasted1610
turgid1620
turgent1621
high-blown1623
tympanous1625
bladdered1633
tympaneda1634
tumoured1635
tympanied1637
enormous1641
over-leaven1648
flatulent1658
tympany-like1658
huffy1677
tumefied1677
blubbered1699
full-blown1699
bloated1731
tympanitical1772
inflated1785
pompholygous1855
overblown1864
forblown-
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iii. ii. 362 My high-blowne Pride At length broke vnder me. View more context for this quotation
1730 G. Woodward Poems Several Occasions 172 In vain you think sure Arguments to find In high-blown Passions.
1781 Let. 13 July in J. Creighton Appeal to Candid Members Established Church (1786) xi. 32 The high-blown phantacy of Self-sufficiency.
1811 H. Cope Triumphs Relig. ii. 48 His high-blown grandeur sinks.
1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto I. ix. 133 She is so high-blown. One would think she had a father who earned five hundred a year.
1935 E. R. Eddison Mistress xvii. 326 They had sided in his behalf..in face of this last high-blown overweening of the Vicar.
1973 E. N. Obiechina Afr. Pop. Lit. vi. 67 They express extravagant, high-blown sentiments about love.
2000 N.Y. Times 30 Oct. a14/1 The political rhetoric of the so-called Texas miracle in education seems high blown to many parents and teachers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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